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Definition of Despisement
1. n. A despising.
Definition of Despisement
1. Noun. despising ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despisement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despisement
Literary usage of Despisement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 by Myra Reynolds (1920)
"... by the over-weaning conceit men have of themselves and through a despisement
of us.2 But she presents her book, with some confidence to the universities ..."
2. The Autobiography of a Working Man by Alexander Somerville (1848)
"... killing toil at the shore, the payment of which was but the means of getting
more drink, and more drink the means of sinking deeper in self-despisement. ..."
3. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"... name in "Rigging and Seamanship," 1.165 (1794). DESK—Pulpit. Murray gives
British citations of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. despisement—Scorn. ..."
4. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classified and Arranged So by Peter Mark Roget (1911)
"Adv. disrespectfully &c. adj. 930. Contempt. — N. contempt, disdain, scorn,
sovereign contempt; despi- eal, -ciency; despisement; ..."
5. New Thoughts Or Shakespeare, Richelieu, Napoleon, Cleopatra, Dickens by Charles Henry Fitler (1898)
"... ambition's triumph, he showered unto Macbeth, unto the secret of its touch
did prove a human torment that bids its own despisement to its plan revealed. ..."